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7 reasons the church needs artists
Filed Under (church, creative, worship) by trey on 03-06-2008
I ran across this yesterday on Tony’s blog and I loved it so much I wanted to pass it on.
7 Reasons Why the Church Needs Artists
1//Only through art can we know God more fully. A person encounters God as an artist before he encounters him as a theologian. We have reduced God’s primary interests to truth and goodness. We must remember that beauty is a primary of interest of his.
2//We must see God’s world more truthfully. Only seeing one theme is insufficient. Artists must help people see both the brokenness and the promise of renewal.
3//We must embrace God’s salvation more completely. Art as morality dictates that we should create more than just “religious” art. Everything is to be redeemed. Everything is worthy of artistic representation.
4//We must worship God more humanly. Because of the image of God, humans make art. Humans create. No other organism on earth does.
5//We must believe God’s promises more confidently. We are blinded to the glory that is here now. With art, you encourage and enlarge hearts to believe the impossible.
6//We must proclaim God’s kingdom more powerfully. Truth has bigger muscles in art.
7//We need to meet God. The primary place where we experience God is in our imagination–the intersection of our mind, emotions and will.
I love reason # 7! I have never been able to express that thought in words.
One of my friends is a really great painter, and he painted a picture of this person crying a single tear. Every time I look at it, it makes me think of God and the love he has for us. The tear has a mixture of all kinds of colors, and to me that represents all the things He wants to share with us, but we are to lost in our own lives to notice, and that may be the saddest thing I could ever imagine.
Just to let you know I will probably steel these seven reasons for my blog as well.